Interesting.  Do you know of anything written by them on this? (Yes, I'm too lazy to go search now.) <div>On 6/26/06, Doug Henwood <<a href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com"> dhenwood@panix.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Jun 26, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote: > I read many assertions from the left today about how NAFTA and neo- > liberal development more generally is fueling illegal immigration. > While I'm not doubting the connecting, I would like to get more > specific about extent.  Has any one run across any more detailed > stories or preliminary studies on the extent to which 1990s-now > illegal immigration can be attributed to changes in Mexican > political economy?  The only index I've seen is the huge drop in > rural labor force in Mexico (I think), but there've got to be others. When I interviewed Douglas Massey on my radio show <http:// <a href="http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#060413">www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#060413 </a>>, he said NAFTA had had little effect; the regions that are the source of most migrants aren't those most affected by NAFTA-related displacements. Julio Huato, in the interview I'll post later today, agreed that NAFTA wasn't a big influence, for different reasons (i.e., the treaty was just part of a larger process of economic integration). Doug ___________________________________ <a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk"> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </blockquote></div>